Notes from the Hatch: On Lessons Re-learned
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Hello friends-who-Hatch,
I’ve been stewing on this month’s Hatch topic for some time, ever since I found a comment from a lovely community member in one of our newsletters about being her own worst critic, knowing it, and continuing anyway despite concrete evidence to the contrary (two published books with great reviews). “You would think then that I'd be over this,” she writes.
It made me think about my own lessons I’ve had to learn, over and over again and how, instead of feeling bad about that fact, I’ve decided to revel in it. Before I was the Community Manager at the Isolation Journals, I was an admiring follower, proud of my former classmates and friends Carmen and Suleika and deeply inspired by them. One day, I scrolled to the TIJ Instagram account and saw a simple pencil-drawn graphic that stopped me in my tracks.
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